f you had a Symbian OS7, you might remember a program which was used to read SMS as they came in, now E-Series have that possibility, but speech recognition and data transfer can keep you aware of your own life wherever you go, even if you don't want to...

The article that I read on IT Business was mostly related to video conferencing and how it helped companies, University students and even other type of colleagues to keep in touch with each other for professional reasons.

Amir Hameed, national sales director for application and software, Avaya Canada Corp. spoke at the presentation of UC products and video conferencing tools from its partner Polycom Inc. in Toronto yesterday.“For people who are driving the convenience of not having to scroll through a BlackBerry phone while navigating the roads is extremely useful,” he said.

This technology is mostly intended to business users, for example, those that prefer i-mates, or Nokia E-Series, or Sony Ericsson P series. Dictation should be made part of other phones as well, extremely necessary for drivers or in a circumstance where you can't look at your phone. It's these tiny details that phone manufacturers have to look at, and leave the advanced research for later, although we love new concepts.